Alexa smart home skill only provides following interface for us:1. Dim/Brighten light by xx percent2. Dim/Brighten light to xx percent3. Set light to xx percent4. Turn on/off light5. Turn on //this command can be used for color changing or group changing.

Does Alexa support Yeelight Groups? I have created a group with 2 bulbs and name it "Living Room Lights". I've tried rediscovering on Alexa a few times, but the group name doesn't show up.Any idea why this is the case?

Now I want to program a sleep timer for my daughter. since there is no option to control the timer included in the yeelight app with a spoken command, I use the scene "sunset", that works quite fine. However, the time period (15 minutes) is a little short, so I#d like to now if there#s a possibility to create a similar scene by myself, with a longer dim period? A simple turn off after 30 minutes will do it as well, but i have no idea how to realize it. IFTTT gives the option the set a scene after timer off, but since the stupid alexa timer always(!) gives a signal sound (even if signal volume is turned to zero), this is not a good solution for a sleep timer.

Our App team is working on a major update recently which includes lighting effect editing. This feature will provide the maximum flexibility to user, you can actually "program" your lights. Please stay tuned for our App update.

I have also purchased the Xiaomi Smart Home Kit (gateway+sensors+PIRs) and for this to fully work you must assign it to Mainland China servers, becase Singapore servers do not support these devices. On the other hand Yeelight voice control works only through Singapore servers. Therefore if I want Yeelight voice control I cannot have Yeelights working wirth the rest Home Alarm Kit.

I would like to be able to use both voice control & xiaomi alarm integration as it is very crucial not only for me, but I think i'm speaking on behalf of many other users. Is there currently ANY workaround for this? And if not are there any plans to do it?

We are really sorry about this awkward situation. As one of the Xiaomi's ecosystem company, the best we can do is to provide good services to our users (Yeelight users) as possible as we can. However, we have to follow some policy and strategy at the meantime. Also, we can't control other companies, for example, that makes Smart Home kit. We are pushing Xiaomi team on globalization and we hope they will make some progress.

this is a major screw-up on xm side. not just this, but also on language, apps (iOS & android apps behave differently), servers, consolidation, standardization. not sure what the responsible xm team is smoking, but i want some too.